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Results from World Mental Health Surveys have found fewer than half of the people with alcohol use disorder who sought treatment perceived their treatment as being helpful. Using survey data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 24 countries, researchers from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), UNSW Sydney, found that of the […]
Is FLATULENCE a sign you’ve got the blues? Depressed people are more likely to break wind, feel bloated and suffer other stomach troubles, study says Study found people with more gas more likely to feel depressed or anxious UK trumps the US, with Brits breaking wind 6 per cent more than Americans Mexico blew the […]
A large team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in the U.K. and Brazil has partially solved the mystery of why some people are less naturally resistant to COVID-19 than others. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their study of the interferon system and the role it plays […]
(HealthDay)—A majority of patients who undergo repair for ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) do not qualify for screening, according to a study published online in the August issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery. Kirsten D. Dansey, M.D., from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and colleagues used the National Inpatient Sample (2004 […]
Older adults may be slower to learn actions and behaviors that benefit themselves, but new research shows they are just as capable as younger people of learning behaviors that benefit others. Researchers at the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford found that youngsters, in contrast, tend to learn much faster when they are making choices that […]
Hannah Kahn got COVID-19 in mid-November, and expected to get her period shortly after. When it never came, she didn’t think much of it at first. “I was just worried about having COVID-19 and distressed by it,” she said. Additionally, as someone who’s been on birth control for five years, Kahn has experience with missing […]
For thousands of years, people have been using palm readings — also called chiromancy or palmistry — to divine an individual’s future. No one is totally sure how or where palmistry began, but scholars of the practice believe it started in ancient India and worked its way through Asia and Europe as merchants took the […]
Why do some people get side effects after COVID-19 vaccines? Temporary side effects including headache, fatigue and fever are signs the immune system is revving up—a normal response to vaccines. And they’re common. “The day after getting these vaccines, I wouldn’t plan anything that was strenuous physical activity,” said Dr. Peter Marks, the U.S. Food […]
The COVID-19 vaccine is a long-awaited miracle to some after a year of fear, isolation, and the unknown. As of this writing, half of all adults in the United States were fully vaccinated against this novel virus that changed the world, according to NPR. In addition, the CDC announced in May of 2021 that fully […]
Blood pressure-lowering medication can prevent serious cardiovascular conditions such as strokes, heart failure and heart attacks even in adults with normal blood pressure, according to new research published in The Lancet. Importantly, the study found the beneficial effects of treatment were similar regardless of the starting blood pressure level, in both people who had previously […]